drive

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n. 驾车, 快车道, 推进力, 驱动, 动力, 击球, 驱动器 vt. 开车, 驱使, 推动, 驾驶 vi. 开车, 猛击, 飞跑 [计] 驱动器

发音

UK /dɹaɪv/
US /dɹaɪv/
AU /dɹaɪv/
其它 /d͡ʒɹaɪv/

词形变化

drives 复数 drives drave dravest driv drived driven drives 三单 driveth driving drove droven drovest druv driving 现在分词 drove 过去式 drave 过去式 driv 过去式 driven 过去式 driven 过去分词 druv 过去式 druv 过去分词 drove 过去分词 drivest drovest 过去式 dravest 过去式 driveth 三单 drove 复数 driv 复数 drave 复数

别名

Dr. D dr driue

教材释义与例句

名词

驱动器;驾车;[心理] 内驱力,推进力;快车道

a journey in a car

名词

驱动器;驾车; 内驱力,推进力;快车道

动词

开车;猛击;飞跑

to make a car, truck, bus etc move along

动词

推动,发动(机器等);驾驶(马车,汽车等);驱赶

释义与例句

n. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

    可数 不可数

    Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.

  2. 2.

    Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    An act of driving (prompting) animals forward.

    An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.

    可数 不可数 政治 军事

    Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.

  5. 5.

    A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

    可数 不可数

    a typical steam drive

    a nuclear drive

    chain drive

    front-wheel drive

    Some old model trains have clockwork drives.

  6. 6.

    A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

    可数 不可数

    It was a long drive.

  7. 7.

    The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)

    可数 不可数 汽车 交通

    Normally you should be in drive, although you can select a lower gear such as 2 or 1 for certain conditions, such as prolonged downhill stretches.

  8. 8.

    A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

    可数 过时 不可数
  9. 9.

    A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

    可数 不可数 体育 游戏
  10. 10.

    A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.

    可数 不可数 体育 游戏
  11. 11.

    A straight level shot or pass.

    可数 不可数 体育 游戏
  12. 12.

    An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.

    可数 不可数 体育 游戏
  13. 13.

    A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

    可数 不可数

    a whist drive

    a beetle drive

  14. 14.

    A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.

    可数 不可数 商务

    vaccination drive

  15. 15.

    An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.

    可数 不可数 媒体 印刷
  16. 16.

    A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

    可数 不可数
  17. 17.

    Friendly term of address for a bus driver.

    英国 可数 俚语 不可数
  18. 18.

    An act of driving (prompting) animals forward.

    An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.

    可数 不可数
  19. 19.

    A driveway.

    可数 不可数

    The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.

  20. 20.

    A type of public roadway.

    可数 不可数

    Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.

  21. 21.

    Desire or interest.

    可数 不可数 心理学

    On the latter show, former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott said she'd never met a man who could match her sexual drive.

  22. 22.

    An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

    可数 不可数 计算机 工程 数学
  23. 23.

    A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.

    磁盘

    可数 不可数 计算机 工程 数学
  24. 24.

    A stroke made with a driver.

    可数 不可数 体育
v. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To operate a vehicle:

    To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

    开车

    驾驶

    揸车

    捍车

    及物

    The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over.

    This SUV drives insanely smoothly—it's like it knows what I want before I do.

  2. 2.

    To operate a vehicle:

    To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

    开车

    不及物

    I drive to work every day.

  3. 3.

    To operate a vehicle:

    To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

    及物

    My cousin drove me to the airport.

  4. 4.

    To operate a vehicle:

    To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.

    俚语 及物 航空 商务 工程

    drive a 737

  5. 5.

    To operate a vehicle:

    To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

    不及物 及物
  6. 6.

    To compel to move:

    (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

    驱赶

    及物

    to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field

  7. 7.

    To compel to move:

    (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.

    及物

    The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.

    We'll drive the enemy from these lands once and for all.

  8. 8.

    To cause to move by the application of physical force:

    To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

    及物

    You drive nails into wood with any hammer; it's not as strenuous as driving a tunnel through the rock.

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados Moving very quietly, I crept up the stairs, and at the top drove one drawing-pin into the lintel about a foot up, another at the same height into the baluster opposite […]

  9. 9.

    To cause to move by the application of physical force:

    To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

    驱动

    及物

    The pistons drive the crankshaft.

  10. 10.

    To cause to move by the application of physical force:

    To hit the ball with a drive.

    不及物 体育 游戏
  11. 11.

    To cause to move by the application of physical force:

    To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.

    及物
  12. 12.

    To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

    及物
  13. 13.

    To compel to undergo a non-physical change:

    To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.

    及物

    My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.

  14. 14.

    To compel to undergo a non-physical change:

    To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

    及物

    What drives a person to run a marathon?

  15. 15.

    To compel to undergo a non-physical change:

    To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).

    及物

    Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.

  16. 16.

    To compel to undergo a non-physical change:

    To cause to become.

    及物

    This constant complaining is going to drive me insane.

    You are driving me crazy!

    1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Maud, XXV, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 90, And then to hear a dead man chatter Is enough to drive one mad.

  17. 17.

    To compel to undergo a non-physical change:

    To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.

    及物

    Frothing at the mouth and threatening expulsion, Coach relentlessly drove the team to more laps of the pitch.

  18. 18.

    To compel to undergo a non-physical change:

    To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

    及物

    The negotiations were driven to completion minutes before the final deadline.

    If you drive yourself so much, you'll end up having a breakdown.

  19. 19.

    To move forcefully.

    不及物
  20. 20.

    To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

    不及物
  21. 21.

    To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

    及物
  22. 22.

    To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

    及物
  23. 23.

    To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

    商务 采矿

    1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures If the miners find no ore, they drive or cut a gallery from the pit a short distance at right angles to the direction of the lodes found

  24. 24.

    To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.

    体育 游戏
  25. 25.

    To distrain for rent.

    废旧
  26. 26.

    To be the dominant party in a sex act.

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognates Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), Yola dhreeve, dhrive, dreeve, drieve, drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driiv, driiw, driwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to drive; to float”), Alemannic German triibe (“to drive”), Dutch drijven (“to drive, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), Luxembourgish dreiwen (“to drive, propel”), Yiddish טרײַבן (traybn, “to drive”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drive (“to drive, propel”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, drive (“to drive, move; to propel; to run”), Swedish driva (“to drive, compel; to drift; to run”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (dreiban, “to drive”).

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